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VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 03:40
Oracle engineers have released the first public beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization software release for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris systems...

Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 03:15
The hearty set of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel. Most notable is preliminary NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support atop the mainline kernel with an open-source driver but there are also big ticket items added for the AMD Radeon/Instinct and Intel graphics drivers too as well as the other smaller drivers...

Git 2.50-rc0 Brings New Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 02:22
The initial release candidate of Git 2.50 is now available for this widely-used, distributed version control system...

Big Linux Patch Series Shakes Up The Scheduler Code For Anyone With Only One CPU Core

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 00:50
For anyone still happening to have only one CPU core in their system and running a uni-processor "UP" kernel build without any simultaneous multi-processing (SMP) support enabled, a big patch series posted today for the Linux kernel may affect you...

Mesa 25.0.7 Delivers A Last Batch Of Fixes To End The Series

Phoronix - Thu, 05/29/2025 - 00:13
Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.0.7 as the newest bi-weekly point release to the Mesa 25.0 series that is also the end of the road for that Q1'2025 release branch...

Linux 6.16 Will Be Able To Exit User Mode Faster: 2~11% Improvement

Phoronix - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 22:58
While the "core/entry" changes for the Linux kernel merge window aren't typically too exciting to write about, there is a new optimization for all CPU architectures worth mentioning for the Linux 6.16 cycle...

AVX-512 Performance + Power Efficiency Shines With AMD Strix Halo

Phoronix - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 21:45
Several weeks into testing the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 flagship "Strix Halo" SoC within the HP ZBook Ultra G1a, I continue to be very impressed with its performance capabilities for a wide range of workloads. While the Radeon 8060S integrated graphics easily turn heads and the 16-core / 32-thread Zen 5 cores deliver incredible performance in a laptop form factor, one feature not to be discounted that together really helps make this laptop/SFF SoC an excellent choice for AI use and other scientific computing purposes is the presence of AVX-512. While Intel's current laptop and desktop processors lack AVX-512, Zen 5's efficient AVX-512 implementation does wonders for the Strix Halo performance and power efficiency. Today's article is exploring the performance and power efficiency benefits of AVX-512 usage on the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO SoC.

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